More on the China Tainted Milk Scandal

China's tainted milk scandal continues to rock the international world with more negative reports coming from all over the world.

Now Taiwan's Pizza Hut chain has reported that packaged cheese powder has been contaminated with the toxic chemical, melamine, and has ordered the removal of such cheese from its stores. Today's The Straits Times also carried the same report and a picture of the company is attached below for reference.




Everything that contains Chinese dairy products are not spared from the massive recalls that occurs around the world. Things range from bread and cakes to crackers and cheese. Nothing is spared and now everybody does not dare to buy any single Chinese products at all.

In Singapore, reports carried news of products that have been tainted with melamine and pictures of the tainted products are attached below:






Do you notice that OREO's wafersticks is also included in the tainted list in the above picture? Yet in the same newspapers, there was an entire page issued by OREO's company which had claimed that its products, including the wafersticks, does not contain any milk ingredients from China. There was even a safety assurance issued by the company, presumely to calm consumers' unrest over its products. See below for illustration.




Now, OREO has its stand but so does AVA. Which report should consumer trust? Whatever it is, before any purchase is made, check the ingredients on the package. Just like the way we check for the product's expiry date and if both the expiry date and the ingredients passed the check, then we can go ahead and buy the products.

AVA is trying its very best to test as much products samples as possible to ensure that they pass the quality checks for consumption. Food is a very sensitive topic and this is especially so in Singapore as food is like the nation's favourite hobby.

Nonetheless, as long as we are conscious of the products that we buy and consume, there should not be much cause for concern as AVA regulates all food imports, unlike in China where such checks are not stringent and could pose health hazards to its people.

Life is short and we should take things in its stride. Let's hope the scandal will blow over soon and that China has learned its lesson from this. That quality should never be compromised for profiteering nor fame.